- Things are moving fast on Syria as first the Russians and then Obama himself jump at a seemingly inadvertent suggestion from John Kerry.
- Kerry's thought bubble is actually not a new idea, as I am sure Israel's former military intelligence chief would point out.
- In any case, Kerry's real gaffe was his comment that the proposed strike would be 'unbelievably small'. James Fallows is baffled: 'this is the undertaking that the same Secretary Kerry just finished telling us was our moment's moral crossroads, our Munich.'
- And Kerry's was not the first gaffe in this American comedy of errors.
- The US Congress is against military strikes, and so are the American people.
- James Fearon is puzzled why it has taken the Obama Administration so long to try bargaining before fighting.
- Syria has barely any oil, so why are markets nervous?
Tuesday Syria links
Published 10 Sep 2013
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